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RESTRICTION SITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does restriction site mean?
• RESTRICTION SITE (noun)
The noun RESTRICTION SITE has 1 sense:
1. the specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNA
Familiarity information: RESTRICTION SITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The specific sites at which a restriction enzyme will cleave DNA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("restriction site" is a kind of...):
site; situation (physical position in relation to the surroundings)
Context examples
CETP B2 lacks a polymorphic TaqI restriction site in intron 1, present in CETP B1.
(CETP 2 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
CETP B1 contains a polymorphic TaqI restriction site in intron 1, absent in CETP B2.
(CETP 1 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
The VH and VL regions of anti-CD22 (sFv) and anti-CD19 are reversed and linked by an aggregration stabilizing linker (ARL) consisting of a 20 amino acid segment of human muscle aldolase (hma) and an Xho1-compatible restriction site; the CDR3 region of the VH of anti-CD22 sFv is mutated to enhance its affinity.
(Anti-CD19/Anti-CD22 Bispecific Immunotoxin DT2219ARL, NCI Thesaurus)
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